Islamabad, Aug 23 : Over 30 militants in the disturbed Swat valley in the northwest of Pakistan have been killed on Saturday according to the Pakistani army.
According to the News Network International (NNI), Major Nasir Ali, who is in charge of the army''s media center in Swat, confirmed that the security forces had indeed launched a major operation in Kanju and Kabbal area of Swat on Saturday morning.
“Over 30 Taliban were killed during the operation and two soldiers also lost their lives,” said Ali.
However, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan, while contradicting the army claims of casualties claimed that it is the Taliban that killed 20 soldiers.
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani has said that his country expected more cooperation from the other war-on-terror stakeholders on its western border (read Afghanistan) in the post-Musharraf phase.
